Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-01-06
POPE BOB.
In spite OF Ills Sore Throat Tie Says
He IL All Right--His Contempt
for the Doctors.

In spite OF Ills Sore Throat He Says
He IL All Right--His Contsmpt
for the Doctors.
Col. Robert g. Ingersoll had an oper-
alton performed upon his throat to-day
early in the day, and another later.
writes New York correspondent Of
The Cincinnati onsmerciaL Gazettc
under date Of Nov. 20. He talks in an
ordinary tone of voice for awhile, and
then rests his throat by speaking in q
whisper. He laughs at the idea of
there beng anything serious in his
malady, but his friends are not SO sure
about it. He is such a big. hearty man,
has known SO little of PHI seal trouble
of any kind. and experienced so little
sickness, that he may underrate the
seriousness of the trouble with his
throat, The omnous feature of the
affection is its persistency. 1t does not
60 away. 1t has troubled him for
months. From a condition of mere
irritability it has come, in many weeks,
! to be subject for the surgeon. Gen.
! Grant suffered from the sore throat
that killed him finally for many months
before he pa enough attention to it
to get medical advice, or even mention
it to anybody. He merely said he had
a little touch of sore throat and gar
gied his throat in the morning with
some cooling liquid and kept on with
his twenty cigars day.
The trouble IS that men grow old and
degenerate phi. sically, while in spirit
and disposition and capacity for enjoy
ment they may remain the same. A
man may awake very sudd My and
solemly to the fact that at 80 years of
age he is not dealing with the same
body he had when he was 25. though
he is just as fond of the pleasures and
/ indulgences of that day as he ever was.
Gen. Grant enjoyed his cigars just as
much, and perhaps more, when he first
felt the trouble in his throat that car
ried him to the grave. rs he did when
he was young lieutenant in the Mex
can war. But the throat was not the
same throat that it was then. So to-
day Col. lngersOll may be urderesti-
mating the seriousness of his throat
trouble. To-day he sat and smoked
cigar. and laughed at the friends who
looked anxious. He said:
alt is nothing, and will go away. As
for stopping smoking and changing
my usual habits. that is doctors non
sense. Grant might as vel have
smoked up to the last day of his life
I and got the enjoyment of it. An utter
and entire change of habits at my time
Of fe or ut Grants Is nonsense 1t is doc
, tors nonsense. Doctors know just as lit
lie about physical man ~ ministers know
about the - ritual man. and are just as
full ut Diun5cr& AMI M stakes. AMI just
MS bound up 10 OH hidc-UouHd notions
that conc durn from the dark ages.
For hundreds "i lca.S physicians bled
people because that was the established
thing, and physic ans before them had
done it, Then some mtidel dared to
brave obloqu, and abuse, and perhaps
was burned at the stake because he be
lieved nature knew more about the
matter than man. and furnished blood
TO make him and to build HIN up. that
the proper thing was to strengthen the
hands of nature BY Strengthening the
blood instead of destroying the agent
by which she wrought her wonders.
How many lives do you think have been
sacrificed by the doctors devoted to
blood-letting? How many people have
been k He'd by being refused water
when burning to death with feverp
There are doctors still practicing in the
back districts who think DIR INK of lce
waller will Kill fever patient, when
that is all nature requires to keep the
patient alive"
| Col. Ingersoll told a story about
time when he was sick with fever many
years ago, about the only sickness he
ever knew. Climbing over a porch
/ outside of his window were grape vines
full of grapes just rpening In his
fever he craved acids and cool ny drinks
! and thos" grapes made him wild with
desire to reach them. but he was stern
~ forbidden to think of them or of ice
water, and he was closely watched to
SEE that he did not reach the forb d,len
fruit One night when he pretended to
be asleep, and was thought too weak
to move. the nurse 81 pped out, perhaps
to get a drink or smoke, Ingersoll
crawled fecbl' from the bed, crawled
out of the window upon the roof of the
porch and ate grapes till he feared the
nurse would return.
"Then.' said he, II filed my shirt
tail full of grapes and crawlel back to
bed and lay and ate them in the dark.
Them" said he, Il went to sleep. bid
ding the world god by, and willing to
do so after the exquisite enjoyment of
that feast"
In the morning the doctor came in,
and, after examination, pronounced
him much improved, and ev IDENTIFY felt
eiated in his success in treating the
case. lngersoll asked him what would
be the consequence if he ale n lot OF
those grapes. and he was assured that
he would not live and hour. After the
grape episode. his improvement was so
RAPID that it amazed the phi s:cian. and
when he told that physician about the
grapes the latter was probably more
amazed than ever Said the colonel;
"Tnese physicians run b old rules. II
man dares to do otherw Sc he is de-
nounced as quack and professionally
osirac zed. The only wisdom we ge,
in the world which is correct comes
from the natural laws and inst net and
is the result of love. When my brother
Ernest was dying | saw it and knew
. the end was near. Nature and my low,
for nv brother taught me that. Drs
Garnet and Bliss were present anC
, smiled at NV ASSERTION that Ernest wa,